Helmet designers have so far failed to account for a key cause of brain injury—the kinetic energy that travels through the head after an impact and makes the brain slosh inside the skull. That’s ...

As a neurologist, Robert Knight has seen what happens when the brain crashes around violently inside the skull. And he’s aware of the often tragic consequences. Throughout his 40 years as an academic ...

While bike helmets have become lighter and more comfortable to wear in the last couple of decades, their shape has remained largely unchanged. Not surprising when you consider the shape of people's ...

A sophisticated new virtual skull is set to help researchers study evolution and design better crash helmets, says an Australian scientist. "It's the most sophisticated model of a chimp skull ever ...

A new helmet design promises to protect cyclists by simulating the way the human skull protects itself from rapid rotational injury. Manufactured by Lazer Designsand designed by U.K.-based Industrial ...

Rezze has decided to develop Skull custom helmets, custom built to specs and designed to provide you with a high degree of comfort and precision. Rezzo ensures that the custom built Skull helmet is ...

A shock-absorbing football helmet system being developed could blunt some dangerous physics that today's head protection ignores. A shock-absorbing football helmet system being developed at the ...

We all know that riding a motorbike without a helmet is a bad choice. Riding without a helmet exposes one to life-threatening danger. Several deaths happen all over the world, every day, in which the ...

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is known for his awesomely unique helmet designs, which usually include some type of skeleton or skull. The No. 88 Chevrolet driver – who is retiring from full-time racing at the ...

Super Bowl viewers might want to keep an eye on the helmets crashing together in Sunday’s game between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos. A new study says that the lids worn by opposing ...